On Sep 29, 2006, at 5:02 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-29 14:16]: >> I had thought about the HTTP/1.1 methods. However, I was only >> concerned with the request methods used for creating RESTful >> protocols. > > That is an oxymoron. Please don’t take this in offense, but you > don’t seem to have understood what REST is about. :-)
From what I've read, there seem to be few people who do. It isn't surprising to find myself among them. > The point of REST is that you (conceptually) manipulate resources > instead of calling methods on remote objects. Resources are > identified by URIs, which are equivalent to nouns. The > manipulation is identified by the method, which is equivalent to > the verb. The point is that resources are declarative; methods > are imperative. Declarative systems are easy to scale and reason > about. Anyway, getting into the whole subject would take us way > too far afield here. The essence is that being able to use new > verbs when you really do need a new way of manipulating arbitrary > resources is a central notion in REST. That is a pretty nice summary. Okay. When I clean up my code, I'll leave open a method to register custom request methods. thanks, Garrett _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
